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Est. 2026 • Human Commoner, former university porter

The Brass Bookmark

The Brass Bookmark is a narrow, three-story general store wedged between a bookbinder and a lecture hall in the university district. Its front windows are crowd...

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Shopkeeper

Mara Vell, a Human Commoner, former university porter (Lvl 3)

Keeper's Species

Human

3 Weapons2 Armor1 Potions11 MiscEst. 137 gp

Shop Inventory

(17)
Weapons3

A balanced knife favored by students, couriers, and scholars who open more crates than they fight monsters.

A compact shortbow made for campus guards, traveling students, and woodland fieldwork.

A sturdy walking staff with an iron-shod tip. It is common among field researchers and adventuring students.

Armor2

A plain leather jerkin reinforced at the shoulders, practical enough for errands and discreet enough for academic fieldwork.

AC +11

A small wooden shield painted with the shop's blue-and-brass crest. Most buyers use it for expedition training rather than war.

AC +2
Potions1

The store's most carefully guarded common magical item, purchased by students who expect their research trips to become more dangerous than planned.

Heal 2 HPMagical healing. The potion is a ruby-red liquid that glimmers when shaken.
Miscellaneous11

A scholar's writing kit packed in a waxed leather folio, with enough supplies for essays, maps, and hastily copied spell diagrams.

A reliable brass lantern with a sliding shutter, popular with students returning from the stacks after midnight.

Clear lamp oil sold in stoppered clay flasks. The shop keeps a dozen beneath the counter and another crate in the cellar.

A durable backpack stamped with the university district's common expedition mark.

A basic climbing bundle assembled for students visiting ruins, caves, and inconveniently located field sites.

A custom academic supply used by surveyors and dungeon-mapping students. The glow is too weak to illuminate an area.

The chalk glows faintly for 1 minute when exposed to moonlight, making recent marks easier to follow.

A custom instrument made by a university artificer and sold as an expensive curiosity to aspiring explorers.

The vibration does not reveal the location or nature of the magical effect.

A cheap, quiet alternative to parchment, favored by students who take notes during lectures or stakeouts.

Dark blue archival ink that dries quickly and resists smearing in damp weather.

A no-frills travel bundle designed for students who have spent their grant money on books instead of provisions.

A practical lens for inspecting inscriptions, plant specimens, counterfeit seals, and suspiciously fine print.

Lootable Stash

(6)

Where The Take Sits

The shop has a busy public floor, a cramped rear office, a locked stockroom, and a cellar reached by a trapdoor beneath a stack of flour sacks. Most valuables are kept in the office or behind the medicine counter, while coin is left in the counter drawer overnight only because the shopkeeper sleeps in the rooms above.
1 Money On Hand2 Personal Item2 Valuable Merchandise1 Records

Security Check

Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) or thieves' tools
DC 14

On Failure

A failed theft attempt triggers a spring-loaded bell behind the counter and scatters blue powder across the intruder's hands. The shopkeeper, a retired university porter, locks the front door, calls two nearby campus guards, and uses the powder to identify the thief for several hours. If the party escapes, the university district's notice boards carry their descriptions by the next morning.

Estimated haul

424.67 gp

Money On HandLoot target #1

Day's Receipts

38 gp, 14 sp, and 27 cp
Locked cash drawer beneath the front counter
The day's takings, mostly from student purchases, travel supplies, and several small equipment orders. The coins are sorted into labeled wooden compartments.
Personal ItemLoot target #2

Mara Vell's Silver Locket

15 gp as jewelry, though the owner would pay considerably more to recover it
Inside a teacup on the shopkeeper's desk in the rear office
A silver locket containing a faded portrait of the shopkeeper's late spouse and a pressed university-clover sprig. It has sentimental value far beyond its resale price.
Valuable MerchandiseLoot target #3

Faculty Emergency Potions

150 gp total
A locked ironbound cabinet behind the medicine shelves
Three sealed Potions of Healing reserved for faculty expeditions and emergency campus use. Each bears the university apothecary's red wax seal.
RecordsLoot target #4

The Blue Ledger

75 gp to a criminal broker, or much more to someone targeting the university
False compartment beneath the lowest shelf in the rear office
A leather ledger containing unpaid student accounts, faculty purchase orders, and names of expedition leaders who have borrowed equipment. It could support blackmail, fraud, or forgery if sold to the right buyer.
Valuable MerchandiseLoot target #5

Departmental Seal Press

40 gp to a collector, 100 gp or more to a forger
Wrapped in cloth inside a locked drawer beneath the office writing desk
A brass university seal press with interchangeable department dies. It is not magical, but it could produce convincing-looking academic documents when paired with proper paper and wax.
Personal ItemLoot target #6

Shopkeeper's Key Ring

5 gp in practical value, plus access to the shop's secured areas
Usually worn on a chain beneath the shopkeeper's vest
A ring of three iron keys: the front door, stockroom, and cellar. The keys are marked by scratches rather than labels, and their loss would force the shopkeeper to replace every lock.
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Mara Vell

Human•Commoner, former university porter•Lvl 3

Shop Atmosphere

“The Brass Bookmark is a narrow, three-story general store wedged between a bookbinder and a lecture hall in the university district. Its front windows are crowded with backpacks, lanterns, chalk boxes, cheap daggers, and hand-lettered notices advertising student discounts. Inside, the air smells of lamp oil, leather, dried herbs, dust, and cinnamon tea. Shelves are labeled by academic discipline rather than ordinary merchandise categories, such as 'Field Naturalism,' 'Practical Defense,' and 'Supplies for Regrettable Excursions.' A brass bell rings whenever someone opens the front door, but the bell sometimes rings on its own when nearby arcane experiments disturb the building's old foundations. The proprietor, Mara Vell, is a sharp-eyed human former university porter who knows which professors pay on time and which students are likely to return from an expedition with a basilisk egg in their backpack. She offers modest discounts to honest students, charges full price to arrogant faculty, and quietly refuses service to anyone who cannot explain why they need six flasks of oil and a crowbar. Her assistant, a nervous half-elf named Pell, handles inventory and sleeps in the stockroom during examination season. A chalkboard near the register lists current rumors, including missing library keys, unusual lights beneath the old observatory, and a professor seeking capable adventurers for paid fieldwork.”
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